A Japanese Perspective of the Mind-Body-Land Connection
Yearbook for Eastern and Western Philosophy July 1, 2024 Hiroshi Abe
Abstract In this paper, I aim to interpret the mind-body-land connection that Christianity and Buddhism suggestively teach as a three-stage extension process of the field of experience, which proceeds accordingly as the three-step movement of our experience develops. Drawing on the Japanese philosopher Nishida Kitaro, I first show why the mind or one’s subjective consciousness deserves to be...